Alumni Rabbi Avi Killip ’14 Praying for Permission in MJL
“It has been a hard year. So hard, it can feel like all our rituals are wrong.
It’s nearly impossible to enter the High Holidays this year with a full heart. It’s nearly impossible to believe that the year ahead might be sweet or that the sins of this past year might be forgiven. To really engage in ritual this year would require a suspension of disbelief, or maybe a willingness to believe in the impossible…When the world is too sad, too hard, too confusing or chaotic, ritual can be an alternative, offering permissions that the real world doesn’t allow. I have come to realize this is what I want this year: Permission.” — Rabbi Avi Killip `14
Hebrew College Rabbinical School Alumna Rabbi Avi Killip ’14, who also serves on the Hebrew College Board of Trustees, recently published an essay, “Praying for Permission”, in My Jewish Learning‘s weekly Shabbat newsletter.
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